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The Michigan Iron Industry Museum is located near the Carp River on the outskirts of Negaunee. Negaunee is home to Pioneer Days, a festival held every year the week following July 4. Negaunee is the home of the only full-length natural-track luge course in the United States, [8] maintained by the Upper Peninsula Luge Club. [9]
Negaunee itself was first settled around 1860, but development was haphazard until the village was first platted in 1865. These plats included what is now the downtown business district of the city. Also in 1865, the Chicago & North Western Railway was laid out, and soon connected Negaunee to other parts of the state. The railroad accelerated ...
Negaunee Township is a civil township of Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,232 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The city of Negaunee is located at the southwest corner of the township, but the two are administered autonomously.
Charles Sundberg was born on September 1, 1845, in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Gustave and Elizabeth Sundberg. [3] [4] He emigrated to the United States in 1864, settling first in Marquette, Michigan, and in 1869 moving to Negaunee. [3]
The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming and the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee each celebrate the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners. [8] [9] A 47-mile-long (76 km) [10] hiking trail from Republic to Marquette, called the Iron Ore Heritage Trail, also provides access to the area's historical sites. [11]
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The original Negaunee depot burned in 1879. [2] This Negaunee depot was built in 1884 by the Marquette and Western Railroad as a freight and passenger depot. [ 3 ] After only a year of service, the entire line was bought by a competitor, the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad. [ 3 ]
The Negaunee region served as the center of U.S. iron ore production from about 1880 until approximately 1900, when this role was taken over by iron mines on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. The Michigan Iron Industry Museum opened in 1987 close to the Carp River Forge site on the Carp River where Michigan iron ore was first forged in 1848.